Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10

The five wise hounds were in a circle and were giving battle to an hundred dogs at once.

Who acts: five wise hounds · What happens: be, give · To what, where: circle, battle, hundred dogs

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five wise hounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hounds	det
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hounds	nummod
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hounds	amod
4	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 circle	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 circle	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 circle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 giving	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 giving	aux
11	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 circle	conj
12	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 dogs	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dogs	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 dogs	nummod
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 giving	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 giving	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 circle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the five wise hounds			a circle			tree rules
2	give	past · progressive	the five wise hounds not said here	battle	a hundred dogs				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent battle=Theme to dog=Recipient at once=Asset

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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